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I am extremely dissapointed with the socket-5 article because of a few reasons not addressed by THG
1)Windows of any kind requires a minimum of 40MB to run after booting up, this is with all options in startup disabled.
2)With usual options ON, the boot up requirements of memory goes up as high as 70MB, especially with lots of startup items etc.
With this in mind, 48MB have no chance of using Windows of any kind properly. Not to mention you need extra memory to run applications like word or excel.
I could close 1 eye about the CPU speed, even don't mind using one that is says 133Mhz, but its got to have sufficient memory.
Sufficient memory = windows in 40MB to 70MB + whatever MB you need to run your application. A minimum of 96MB or 128MB is good.
If Bill Gates was asked
"Why did you specify minimum memory requirment for Win95 as only 16MB when it should be 96MB or 128MB?"
Bill Gates would not have been a billionaire now.
Imagine if the world was told the "hiding" truth, many of us or big corporate might not have bought Windows95 at all.
The experience using Windows95 would have been so much pleasureable if every one had 128MB, things would run so much faster, smoother etc.
The HDD would not crunch forever asking for virtual memory etc.
Well I will end here, I hope THG would not produce such article again without addressing the full issue. This is the first article since the start of THG which I consider extremely lack of detail.
Best regards
cx5
1)Windows of any kind requires a minimum of 40MB to run after booting up, this is with all options in startup disabled.
2)With usual options ON, the boot up requirements of memory goes up as high as 70MB, especially with lots of startup items etc.
With this in mind, 48MB have no chance of using Windows of any kind properly. Not to mention you need extra memory to run applications like word or excel.
I could close 1 eye about the CPU speed, even don't mind using one that is says 133Mhz, but its got to have sufficient memory.
Sufficient memory = windows in 40MB to 70MB + whatever MB you need to run your application. A minimum of 96MB or 128MB is good.
If Bill Gates was asked
"Why did you specify minimum memory requirment for Win95 as only 16MB when it should be 96MB or 128MB?"
Bill Gates would not have been a billionaire now.
Imagine if the world was told the "hiding" truth, many of us or big corporate might not have bought Windows95 at all.
The experience using Windows95 would have been so much pleasureable if every one had 128MB, things would run so much faster, smoother etc.
The HDD would not crunch forever asking for virtual memory etc.
Well I will end here, I hope THG would not produce such article again without addressing the full issue. This is the first article since the start of THG which I consider extremely lack of detail.
Best regards
cx5